I think I will have nightmares tonight about the Jimmy Fallon/robot clip. When, at 4:58-5:10, the robot said she had a ‘plan to dominate the human race’, then laughed awkwardly and got an evil expression on her face, I got chills down my spine. Disturbing!

I used to be addicted to television, to the point that, as soon as I walked in the door from work every evening I would switch it on, just to have noise going while I cleaned up, made dinner, etc. Then one night I was sitting there doing something really dumb. A show I liked came on at 8:00, followed by a show I didn’t like at 8:30, followed by another show I liked at 9:00. This is how addicted I was: I was actually sitting there suffering through the 8:30 show, waiting for the one at 9! The straw that broke the camel’s back was a commercial that came on, full of smug people loudly and rudely haranguing the viewer. I thought, ‘I wouldn’t put up with this treatment from a stranger on the street, yet here I am inviting it into my home, into my sanctuary.’ The next day I got rid of the set and haven’t looked at television since. That was fourteen years ago. Very happy!

Oh sure, I have a huge collection of movies on DVD & Blu-Ray. I also have a secondhand set that a friend gave me to watch them on, but I gather that, in the intervening fourteen years since my ‘epiphany’, television now requires a digital hookup for your set in order to receive programming. It’s that hookup I lack, and I have no intention of obtaining one. So my set is essentially an analog video monitor: I can watch DVDs and Blu-Rays, but nothing else. Fine with me!